Immerse Yourself: Build your own virtual reality with Google’s Tour Creator

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[ UUID ] 1010a602-4fec-4737-be51-58db525958f5

[ Session Name ] Immerse Yourself: Build your own virtual reality with Google’s Tour Creator [ Primary Space ] Youth Zone [ Secondary Space ] Openness

[ Submitter's Name ] Heather Stone [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] hstone@louisiana.edu [ Submitter's GitHub ] hnstone

[ Other Facilitator 1's Name ] Ella Barker

[ Other Facilitator 2's Name ] Kary Ritter

[ Other Facilitator 3's Name ] Stephen Barker

What will happen in your session?

Participants will learn the process for producing a virtual reality tour on site. The session will introduce participants to ways to use Expedition outside of the classroom; show them how to create a tour to reach a defined audience; and, give them a platform to share their work.

The session will begin with a group brainstorm in which participants will share ideas and innovations. Participant groups will receive templates for tour creation and a description of a goal. Each group will focus on a defined goal to manipulate their tour to reach a specific audience. At the end, participants can publish the tour and view in 360 headsets. The URLs for all published tours will be made available to all.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

The discussion and creation of a model Expedition enables participants to engage with different tour scenarios which can be then be implemented and modified to share the participants own message with a diverse audience. The aim is to demonstrate the opportunity to disseminate participants personal knowledge and skill set on a large scale through the engaging and immersive platform of virtual reality.

The participants will be able to access the created tours and the sample templates in order to replicate the process shown during the session with their own goals and audience in mind in order to contribute to the already created tours.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

We will bring all of the equipment needed with us.

Time needed

60 mins

[hnstone]

We would need a laptop lab for this project please

[chadsansing]

^^^ Thanks for adding the label, @gbaman.

[karyritter]

Can I have the specs on the computers in the lab?

[gbaman]

This is one for @tinagoetschi, but I doubt overly powerful. I also wouldn't assume stuff like dedicated graphics cards etc. But Tina will know more on this one

[karyritter]

A little more about this session: Participants will be able to quickly acquire 360 photos from online repositories or anywhere with 360 street view footage as there is a direct plugin in the application. The 360 photos can be of their home town or favorite spot or any other place that they would like to share with others. The participants can then add information in the form of text popups and voice-over audio and immediately publish the tour. VR Headsets will be provided to view their tour immediately. Participants can also view previously created tours from any other Mozfest attendees or from tours created all over the world.